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Walking through his store, Scott Petty noticed customers using their smart phones to reference grocery lists or call home for buying instructions. Petty, president of Petty’s Fine Foods, was already intrigued by the applications on his iPhone. He approached Gerald Buckley, founder of Grocio.com, to suggest an app for the grocery store.

Bill to provide preference in bidding advances OKLAHOMA CITY – Legislation to give preference in state bidding to local companies when all other factors are equal was approved by a state House committee Tuesday. House Bill 2910, by state Rep. ...

Little good is accomplished by dumping money into a community without an invitation or letting the people identify their own needs, Ernesto Sirolli said. And only harm can come from asserting one’s own plan over the will of local residents.

For decades the standard question at U.S. grocery store checkout counters has been “Paper or Plastic?” But since January, consumers in the U.S. capital have faced a different question: “Will you pay 5 cents for a bag?”

You’ve decided you want to get a job. The first thing you may want to do is update your LinkedIn profile. But, this is the problem. You’re doing a few things wrong. Those things are going to slow down your search, and you don’t even know it.